CJ Abrams

On the record · career milestone this season

500 career hits — Fri, May 8 · night game vs. Miami Marlins The scorecard → · The write-up →

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FlagshipCJ Abrams [Gold] #152 · 2026 Topps · 65 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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The rookieCJ Abrams #USC3 · 2022 Topps Chrome Update · 152 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$1.17Raw$7.50PSA 9$25.46PSA 10$33.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 43 nights

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Scout’s note

Abrams is 25, a 2019 first-round pick out of Alpharetta, Georgia, and the engine sees a shortstop running warm. EV95 of 106.5 sits in the 61st percentile of our 372 tracked bats — barely above the 105.9 median — with results 0.0477 ahead of the physics: warm, still shy of the fade line. He has 140 career steals and 91 RBI this season, fourth in the league. The composite places him 335th of 372; the board takes 20. He is hitting, and some of it is borrowed.

Current signals

The read: Abrams is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 106.5 (61st percentile of the 375 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results 0.046 ahead of the physics — running warm, but shy of the fade line. He sits No. 336 of 375 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

PAID — his line has outrun his contact. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

106.485

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0457

Overlay score

-0.2934

WAR (season · MLB calc)

3.5

Balls in play

362

Age

25

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of August 25, 2026.

2026 salary

$4.20M

Tax hit

$4.20M

Service time

3 yr 130 d

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Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Washington Nationals.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of August 20, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$4.20M

Guaranteed

$4.20M

Term

1 yr

His class

Arb

The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.

The Wire

▲ On the field: CJ Abrams records just the second 25 HR / 25 SB season in Nationals history.

X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-08-28 · newest post 2026-08-27 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →

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The Bureau on CJ Abrams

The scouting press, in their own words